It has similar imaging characteristics, but it’s hefty, not quite as sweet as the f/3.5-and it goes for $450-600.) Price range: $100-160 (Note: If you prefer a faster 100mm Canon screw mount lens, check out the 100mm f/2 Canon of the same era.
Color rendition is likewise gorgeous, and its compact size makes it great for travel. Pictures taken with it have that classic look- sharp with excellent contrast, creamy bokeh, what they called luminance back in the day. This exceptional 5-element, 4-group medium telephoto Leica/Canon screw mount lens was first offered under the Serenar name in silver finish in 1953 and later under the official company name Canon in black and silver in 1958. It’s sharp wide open, especially near the center of the frame produces superb creamy bokeh, and is a great lens for portraiture in crop-sensor or Micro Four Third System cameras where it provides a medium telephoto effective focal length. It has a floating rear element to suppress distortion, is a superlative choice for portraiture, still life, or nature, and can focus down to 1:5 for stunning close-ups.ĭating back to the ‘30s in uncoated form, this long-running 6-element, 4-group Gauss formula lens made by the former East German branch of Zeiss is typically found in Exakta or M42 screw mount. It delivers outstanding sharpness even wide open, impressive color accuracy, and buttery smooth bokeh. Introduced along with the multi-spot-metering Olympus OM-4 in 1983, this 7-element, 6-group classic is one of the few Olympus lenses of its era to incorporate ED glass. A new version of this lens re-introduced in 2013 is available new and thankfully they haven’t “improved” it. It’s not that sharp wide open but it delivers the much sought after “swirly bokeh” with backgrounds like trees and flowers, and it’s quite sharp stopped down.
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Made in Russia from the mid ‘50s to the ‘90s this ponderous 6-element Double Gauss lens is said to be based on Zeiss Biotar design and it’s usually found in M42 (Pentax/Practica) mount in black finish and manual (pre-set) aperture configuration. It’s quite sharp in the center but soft at the edges at f/2 surprisingly sharp overall at f/5.6 on down, renders moderate contrast images with that classic “roundness,” and produces gorgeous bokeh. The first “super-speed” f/2 normal lens for screw-mount Leicas, Leitz turned out 127,950 of these collapsible 6-element, 4-group beauties from 1933-40.
Get ’em quickly before someone else snaps them up! (Scroll down to the bottom of this story to read my tips on choosing and using vintage lenses on digital cameras.) The following are my personal 10 favorite vintage lenses to use on digital cameras.
Regrettably it has also resulted in skyrocketing prices for some vintage lenses that have become cult classics. Indeed, the use of vintage lenses on digital cameras has become so popular over the past few years it has spawned a cottage industry of small and medium sized companies offering relatively inexpensive adapters that will let you mount the majority of vintage lenses on your current digital marvel with varying degrees of convenience and functionality. And for photographers who want to create unique images that express their personal style, character can be even more important than MTF and resolution numbers, corner-to-corner sharpness, freedom from aberrations, evenness of illumination, high contrast, low distortion, and color fidelity-in short, all the criteria lens testers consider crucial in evaluating lens performance. Why would anyone in their right mind want to use old lenses on their shiny new high-performance DSLR or mirrorless camera? The simple answer is that some older lenses can capture images that have that elusive quality known as character.
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